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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/22948152

OS: CachyOS GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Board: MPG B550 GAMING PLUS CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 4.43 GHz Memory: 31.26 GiB

i try to keep it short: i have issues with some games (like the witcher 3) and often hear that its an issue with nvidia drivers etc..

So my question is: would a switch / small upgrade to a AMD Radeon 6800 be worth it?

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[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If things work for you with Nvidia then probably no. But since you mentioned issues, then AMD might help. My gaming box has had an AMD gpu and I don't remember seeing any problems related to it in at least a year. With Wayland, too.

Are you using the official nvidia drivers?

[-] rapchee@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i switched from rtx 2060 to 5700 xt just a few weeks ago, and a bunch of things run well that barely could before. i was mostly concerned with the forza horizons, they run perfectly now

however there are some issues, mplayer/mpv shows a blue screen on most output drivers, and steamvr just crashes, so there are things to figure out (suggestions are welcome)  

  

(btw i played w3 for a bit before on nvidia, and i had no issues, just to complicate things)

[-] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago

I think the only sane thing i would do is to reinstall the distro... But maybe you should open a new thread? People are very nice here and I bet somebody can help you with a better solution than me :3

[-] rapchee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

i have actually bought a new ssd, thinking, well, moving will be a pain in the butt, but things will be better, right?
installed pop 24, steamvr crashed, oh well, let's try 22 - steamvr still crashes
video ran fine both cases but ugh i just... can't now. so i just keep using this old install until i gather the energy to figure things out and move everything

[-] ark3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've switched from 3090 to the XTX few months back because of a really weird and unique bugs in one of my games (but otherwise it worked alright) and for few months had a lot more problems then I had with nvidia, especially with suspend but sometimes it would just crash (Plasma).

I did also switch to Plasma/Wayland with the upgrade so who knows but few kernels/mesa versions back were really bad, it works nicely now though [Arch]

[-] crow@leminal.space 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've had no issues with nVidia GPU and TW3, running it with protonGE 9.26. Try that first if you haven't already

[-] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

The witcher was just an example, hoped for an easy fix for example the dead space female had some stutters too. But i think i gonna check the configs and post them wehen I am back in town

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

https://www.protondb.com/app/292030

Seems to generally work OK with Nvidia, but you may want to try Proton experimental or GE.
If you search 3070 one user also using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 seems to have it running out of the box with only a minor glitch.
But there seems to be a pretty heavy overweight of Radeon users. But IDK if we can draw any conclusions from that?
The game has platinum status, so it ought to work on a decent GPU/system like yours.

[-] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

If you're playing Witcher 3 with the RTX on and the next-gen update then it's probably your VRAM limiting you.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here's the direct comparison:

https://www.hardwaredb.net/geforce-rtx-3070-vs-radeon-rx-6800

Would it be worth it?

If you're in the US, looking at US prices (~$520), hellllllll no.


You can get a 9070 (non xt), for almost the same price (~$550), and thats a much, much better GPU, much more performance per dollar.

https://www.hardwaredb.net/radeon-rx-9070-vs-radeon-rx-6800

Or, you could get a 9060 XT (16 GB) for half about half the price (~$270), and still have a probably overall better card in most situations.

https://www.hardwaredb.net/radeon-rx-9060-xt-vs-radeon-rx-6800

And yes, a 9060 XT (16 GB) beats a 3070.

https://www.hardwaredb.net/radeon-rx-9060-xt-vs-geforce-rtx-3070

Double the VRAM, near half the cost, roughly 20% more gigapixel throughout.


Yeah, older model GPUs, the used market, at least in the US?

Pricing is delusional right now.

Apparently nobody got the memo that new, current AMD GPUs, have actually fallen in price a good deal in the last 6 months.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago

Man, that's a big lateral move. Honestly, my experience is spotty as well (using mostly Bazzite), and I'm sticking to dual booting for the foreseeable. I definitely would not change hardware for this reason. Especially because, having some installs on AMD-based hardware, my expectation that the issues would drop to zero is... very low.

If you can't try before you buy I'd only swap to get a meaningful upgrade. Of course when a "meaningful upgrade" will be affordable or accessible in the future is anybody's guess. Because isn't tech in the 21st century fun?

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Because isn’t tech in the 21st century fun?

I miss tech in the 90s.. at least every release saw massive increases in everything but price.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Well, I guess we're only going to invent the microchip once.

In any case now that I'm... you know, not a kid and can look at 90s tech with some historical data, it wasn't quite as straightforward as we remember. But then it also didn't have memory prices spiking by 300% overnight because everybody knows a fake AI bubble is going to pop so they want to sell them a bunch of crap before all the money evaporates but not ramp up production because that money is clearly going to evaporate.

That's 21st century through and through. 20th century tech would just keep slapping the same Z80 and Motorola 68000 chips on things for a decade. Z80 too slow as your CPU? Maybe it can be your sound chip now. Listen, we have warehouses of these, we'll keep selling you new ones well into the 2000s, it's barely a clump of wires held together with chewing gum.

Did you know the 68000 was 10 years old by the time it made it to the Genesis/Megadrive as a CPU? That'd be like the PS5 launching with a single core 2GHz Athlon from 2005. I didn't know that as a kid.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

I dont know what CachyOS is.. but if you're willing to try hardware changing, why not try an OS change first?

Specifically, a change to a gaming focused linux distro (like Nobara, or Bazzite), that comes with a nvidia specific iso?

See if that solves your issue before dropping money on a new card.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

CachyOS is gaming focused though, their GUI has a button to install their gaming meta package. they also package their own Proton which shows up in Steam as a compatibility option.

cyberpunk at least seems to run noticeably better for me on CachyOS than it did on Win11, on exactly the same hardware (5800x3d, rtx 4080)

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Ah, well, I don't know then. Sorry, like I said, I know nothing about CachyOS.. but it wouldnt hurt to try, regardless, since switching from nvidia to amd would basically be easiest with a reformat anyway.

[-] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 1 points 3 months ago

You know Nobara & Bazzite but you never heard of the CachyOS?... Tell me you're a troll without telling me you're one.

[-] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

CachyOS the top distro on distrowatch.com right now.

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